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    "id": 1117374,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. There has been ongoing school‟s unrest and incidents of fires across the nation. However, in Nandi we have not reported many incidents. I have seen a number of schools have gone on unrest somewhere in Nandi Hills sub-county among other areas. Madam Deputy Speaker, I request the media to be cautious when reporting on these fire incidences across the country. It looks like there is some peer pressure. When students see other schools being burnt down, they get excited and think that by burning theirs, it will appear cool. As a country and with the onset of the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC), it is the right time to re-consider the system of boarding schools across the nation. Our children have been in boarding school for three or four months. Being in that kind of environment, it continues to give them unnecessary pressure. We need to reconsider on the issue of boarding schools in this Republic. Let us make all our schools to be day schools and our children can come back in the evening. We do not leave our children with the teachers and principals. Most of us parents have abdicated our role and given the principals and teachers an unnecessary job description. They are supposed to teach from 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. A teacher is on duty throughout the night. Finally, is the issue of academic performance. According to research most students that start fire incidents and commit acts of indiscipline, do not perform very well in school. Therefore, they are given pressure by the school administrators that they must perform. Many of them are not of similar capacities. You heard what a parent of a student from Buruburu Girls‟ said yesterday in the news that the matter was reported to the principal who said chomeni . How should we handle this? I think we need the counselling and guidance centres to be more student-friendly so that such incidents are nipped in the bud. I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker."
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